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Permit (fish)

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Smith, C.L., 1997. National Audubon Society field guide to tropical marine fishes of the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. 720 p.
392:. The dorsal fin is shaped like a scythe. Permit tails are also deeply forked, and their bodies are compressed laterally, making the fish tall and thin when viewed from the front. 910: 964: 737:
Randall, J.E., 1996. Caribbean reef fishes. Third edition - revised and enlarged. T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., Hong Kong. 3rd ed. 368 p.
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The permit fish can reach a maximum length of 122 cm and can weigh up to 36 kg, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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in its honor, in keeping with the "denizens of the deep" theme of submarine names that prevailed before the 1971 naming of
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and have a large, orange-yellow patch on their abdomens in front of their anal fins, while their
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Smith-Vaniz, W.F.; Williams, J.T.; Pina Amargos, F.; Curtis, M.; Brown, J. (2015).
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Romero, P., 2002. An etymological dictionary of taxonomy. Madrid, unpublished.
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Permit are usually found in shallow, tropical waters such as
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areas, they spawn offshore. Young are found usually in the
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Permit are found in the western Atlantic Ocean from
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This serves as a reference to the permit's 417: 395:The average permit has six or seven dorsal 328: 315: 308: 299: 292: 616: 614: 612: 610: 380:A preserved permit from the Gulf of Mexico 48: 29: 591: 371: 375: 262:The permit was originally classified as 620: 607: 290:comes from a fusion of the Greek words 957: 771: 770: 755:http://fishbull.noaa.gov/1001/cra.pdf 653: 651: 649: 647: 645: 965:IUCN Red List least concern species 671: 659:"Florida Museum of Natural History" 579:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 360:, probably from a Doric variant of 13: 642: 14: 1001: 975:Fish of the Eastern United States 743: 494:A permit caught off the coast of 348:of permit feed near the surface. 540: 525: 502: 487: 73: 547:A wild permit off the coast of 442:are available for them to eat. 731: 710: 697:California Academy of Sciences 532:Another, near seagrass in the 1: 555: 980:Fish of the Western Atlantic 306:), which means "rough", and 281: 7: 990:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus 257: 10: 1006: 779: 750:Bonefish and Tarpon Trust 316: 300: 286:The permit's genus name, 205: 198: 175: 168: 70:Scientific classification 68: 46: 37: 28: 23: 624:; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). 453:, including most of the 418:Distribution and habitat 322:), meaning "back". The 985:Fish described in 1758 638:. August 2019 version. 586:: e.T190407A16510662. 381: 372:Anatomy and morphology 329: 309: 293: 763:on Sealife Collection 679:Eschmeyer, William N. 379: 326:name for the permit, 811:Trachinotus falcatus 781:Trachinotus falcatus 628:Trachinotus falcatus 572:Trachinotus falcatus 225:Trachinotus falcatus 179:Trachinotus falcatus 40:Conservation status 466:United States Navy 382: 952: 951: 773:Taxon identifiers 692:Catalog of Fishes 403:. Permit have no 368:, “young tuna”). 242:. 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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Carangiformes
Carangidae
Trachinotus
Binomial name
Linnaeus
1758
Synonyms
game fish
Atlantic Ocean
family
Carangidae
crabs
shrimp
fish
type species
τραχύς
νῶτον
species
falcatus
scythes

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